Former Indian Prime Minister and a member of Gandhi-Nehru family, Rajiv Gandhi was born on August 20, 1994 in Bombay Presidency. The elder son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, Rajiv went on to become the youngest Indian Prime Minister at the age of 40. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother Indira and later became the 6th Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989.

A pilot by profession for the state-owned Indian Airlines, Gandhi married Sonia in 1968 and settles in Delhi with their children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Despite being an ambitious and a progressive Prime Minister, Gandhi’s tenure as Prime Minister was mired with controversies, including the Bhopal disaster and the Shah Bano case. However, even after attempts to bring peace in Sri Lanka, Gandhi was assassinated by a suicide bomber from the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) in 1989.

On his 75th birth anniversary, several leaders took to social media to pay their tributes to the great political figure. Prime Minister

Narendra Modi, who is currently on a visit to Bhutan, took to Twitter to pay homage to the former Prime Minister.